Gregoire Named Washington Governor

AUTHOR(S)

Ketemen, Jasnima

PUB. DATE

January 2005

SOURCE

Bond Buyer;1/3/2005, Vol. 351 Issue 32041, p30

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that fifty-eight days after the election, Washington's Secretary of State Sam Reed certified on Thursday the results of an unprecedented third vote count that declared Democrat Christine Gregoire the victor over her Republican gubernatorial opponent by 129 votes. Local press reported that her challenger, Dino Rossi, did not immediately concede and instead publicly called for a new election, characterizing the initial machine recount and following manual recount "a total mess." Rossi's election team was requesting information from ail 39 counties before deciding to move forward with any legal challenges.

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